CBC News: Country Canada (until January 2006 simply titled Country Canada) was a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television, hosted by Reg Sherren. It was produced by CBC Winnipeg, and profiled rural and country life in Canada.
Sandy Cushin was Country Canada's host between 1975 and 2000.
Country Canada began in 1954 as Country Calendar, and was also produced by CBWT.
On April 4, 2007, CBC announced the cancellation of Country Canada at the end of that season, after 54 years. The last broadcast was Sept. 16, 2007.
In 2001, the CBC and Corus Entertainment launched a digital television channel fashioned after Country Canada, called Country Canada. Now the service is called bold
Famous quotes containing the words country and/or canada:
“There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)